9:55 PM,
Jan. 27, 2013

The garbage is compacted and spread out by a large excavator at the St. Clair County Landfill in Smiths Creek.

Written by

Holly Setter
| Times Herald

Amid discussions of opening the Smiths Creek Landfill to trash from other counties, St. Clair County corporation counsel Gary Fletcher is questioning whether the county could refuse to accept Canadian trash, regardless of changes to the solid waste plan.

"The courts have ruled that counties, and states for that matter, cannot regulate interstate commerce," Fletcher said. "If we had a single truck pull up today with Canadian trash and say 'I'd like to dump here'... it would be a very interesting question. I don't know that you could tell them no."